# 2019–20 Benevento Calcio season

The 2019–20 season was the second consecutive season of Benevento in the second division of Italian football after relegation from Serie A in 2018.
Along with competing in the league, the club also participated in the Coppa Italia.
On 29 June 2020, Benevento secured promotion to the Serie A with seven matches to spare. At the time, Benevento had won 23 of their 31 league games and lost just once, and had a 24-point advantage over nearest rivals Crotone and Cittadella. Ascoli were the last club to be promoted with seven games remaining, and they did so in 1977–78 when only two points were awarded for a victory.

## Players
### Squad information

    As of 30 January 2020
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | ITA | Lorenzo Montipò |
| 2 | DF | ITA | Francesco Rillo |
| 3 | DF | ITA | Gaetano Letizia |
| 4 | MF | ITA | Lorenzo Del Pinto |
| 5 | DF | ITA | Luca Caldirola |
| 6 | MF | CIV | Siriki Sanogo |
| 7 | MF | GER | Oliver Kragl |
| 8 | MF | COL | Andrés Tello |
| 9 | FW | ITA | Massimo Coda |
| 10 | MF | ITA | Nicolas Viola (Vice-captain) |
| 11 | DF | ITA | Christian Maggio (Captain) |
| 12 | GK | ITA | Niccolò Manfredini |
| 13 | DF | ITA | Alessandro Tuia |
| 14 | DF | ITA | Massimo Volta |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | MF | ITA | Riccardo Improta |
| 17 | MF | GHA | Abdallah Basit |
| 18 | DF | GHA | Bright Gyamfi |
| 19 | MF | ITA | Roberto Insigne |
| 20 | FW | ITA | Giuseppe Di Serio |
| 21 | MF | FIN | Përparim Hetemaj |
| 22 | GK | ITA | Pier Graziano Gori |
| 23 | DF | ITA | Luca Antei |
| 25 | FW | ITA | Marco Sau |
| 27 | MF | SVN | Dejan Vokić |
| 28 | MF | ITA | Pasquale Schiattarella |
| 32 | FW | ITA | Gabriele Moncini |
| 35 | DF | ITA | Federico Barba (on loan from Chievo) |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | ITA | Gianluca Di Chiara (at Perugia) |
| — | DF | ITA | Luca Sparandeo (at Virtus Francavilla) |
| — | DF | ITA | Salvatore Tazza (at Arzignano) |
| — | MF | ITA | Alessio Donnarumma (at Picerno) |
| — | MF | JPN | Cy Goddard (at Pafos) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | MF | BRA | Guilherme (at Yeni Malatyaspor) |
| — | MF | ITA | Giovanni Volpicelli (at Arezzo) |
| — | FW | SWE | Samuel Armenteros (at Crotone) |
| — | FW | ITA | Pietro Iemmello (at Perugia) |

## Competitions
### Serie B
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Benevento (C, P) | 38 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 67 | 27 | +40 | 86 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 2 | Crotone (P) | 38 | 20 | 8 | 10 | 63 | 40 | +23 | 68 | Promotion to Serie A |
| 3 | Spezia (O, P) | 38 | 17 | 10 | 11 | 54 | 40 | +14 | 61 | Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 4 | Pordenone | 38 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 48 | 46 | +2 | 58 | Qualification for promotion play-offs semi-finals |
| 5 | Cittadella | 38 | 17 | 7 | 14 | 49 | 49 | 0 | 58 | Qualification for promotion play-offs preliminary round |
* 1 2 Pordenone finished ahead of Cittadella on head-to-head points: Pordenone 0–0 Cittadella, Cittadella 0–2 Pordenone.

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 19 July 2020. Source: Soccerway

#### Positions by round

The table lists the positions of Benevento after each week of matches. In order to preserve chronological evolvements, any postponed matches are not included to the round at which they were originally scheduled, but added to the full round they were played immediately afterwards.
| Team ╲ Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 |
| Benevento | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
* Champions, promotion to Serie A
* Promotion to Serie A
* Play-off semifinals
* Play-off preliminary round
* Play-out
* Relegation to Serie C

#### August
### Coppa Italia
#### Second round
## Statistics
### Hat-tricks

    As of 3 July 2020.
| Player | Against | Result | Date |
| Nicolas Viola | Trapani | 5–0 (H) Archived 2020-09-11 at the Wayback Machine | 6 December 2019 |
| Marco Sau | Ascoli | 4–0 (H) Archived 2020-09-11 at the Wayback Machine | 29 December 2019 |

#### Note

(H) – Home (A) – Away

### Clean sheets

    As of 3 July 2020.
| Player | Clean sheets | Weeks |
| Lorenzo Montipò | 18 | 1, 3, 7, 8, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 23, 25, 28, 29, 30, 31 |